Shaping the Future of the Fitness Industry

Our History

Founded by Fitness Entrepeneurs for Fitness
Entrepeneurs

Our founders Conor, Finn, and Anthony founded Glofox in
2014 to support an industry they saw huge potential in - boutique, group-focused fitness
studios and gyms, who know that having a strong brand and a focus on community are
important factors to keeping happy and engaged members and growing your business.

Our Purpose

Helping Fitness Business Embrace a New Busines Model

We enable boutique fitness studio owners to maintain authentic relationships with
their members, and are building a community of customers at every phase of the life
cycle and at scale, whether you own one studio or 100

Our values

Create a healthier world.

One Team

The whole Glofox team is just that - a team. We function well only if we function
together, and everyone is heard and valued.

Blaze A Trail

We strive to be innovative thinkers and doers, and aren't afraid to be the first
to give something a try if it's the right thing to do for our customers and our
team.

Customer Champions

Our customers are our backbone, and we do all this so that they can succeed. We
are always innovating with them in mind.

Act With Integrity

We believe in working with honest, moral, and ethical people.

Be Accountable

The Glofox team delivers on expectations, owns up to their mistakes, and gives
credit where credit is due.

Timelines

Our Journey to Help Build a Healthier World

January 2014

Zappy Professional services launches custom mobile app and software
development services across a range of industries

October 2014

Glofox is born! The Zappy name is dropped and the first iteration of the
management dashboard is released from our coworking office space in Downtown
Dublin, Ireland

December 2014

Glofox throws it's first holiday party, which was a pretty small affair - 3
guys with some turkey sandwiches

March 2015

May 2015

And we're off to a running start. We get our first seed funding of €500K
coming from Enterprise irelands high potential start up fund and business
angel, Growing Capital

July 2015

We move into our first office space in the Dublin suburb of Ranelagh. A
basement to call our own!

December 2015

Holiday party number 2 - Getting a little bigger! Now we are 8 and we headed
to our local pub for some pints and greasy bar food platters.

January 2016

Glofox narrows its focus to be entirely on the boutique fitness industry and
the first version of our branded member app is released to deliver on that
promise.

December 2016

Our 3rd holiday party -14 Glofoxers head to a nice BYOB dinner at a local
restaurant.

February 2017

We make the office official and move to a lovely open plan in an office park
in a Dublin commuter town.

March 2017

Our first institutional round of funding comes through! Notion Capital,
Partech Ventures, Tribal VC, and Enterprise Ireland back Glofox with €2M to
meet global demand and expand the Glofox team

December 2017

Holiday party number 4 and we're hitting critical mass - 30 of us took over a
cocktail bar and have quite the soiree

September 2018

We launch our new brand identity and redesigned website with a cleaner and
more fitness focused look.

October 2018

Expanded our presence and opened our office in Galway in the west of
Ireland.

November 2018

We launch a new and improved version of our member app with all new back-end
architecture + enable global payment processing integrations that allow us
to support clients in more parts of the world.

December 2018

We move into an even larger office space in a beautiful historic building in
downtown Dublin. We host our 5th holiday party here - we're now up to 50
Glofoxers!

January 2019

We open our office in Sydney, Australia, expanding our operations, sales, and
support teams into Asia/Pacific.

February 2019

We hit 1 Million end members booking classes and memberships with our
studios!

March 2019

Our Los Angeles, California offices open in Playa Vista, which will serve as
our US headquarters.

May 2019

We close a $10M Series A funding round led by Octopus Ventures, with
additional investment from Partech, Notion Capital and Tribal VC. We'll be
using the funds to expand our presence in the US as well as allocating funds
to product, developing additional innovative solutions for the
enterprise/franchise market.

Dublin

Belfast

Sydney

Join the Glofox Family

Our team is at the core of what we do. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and Los
Angeles, California with offices in Galway and Sydney, we're changing the fitness
industry forever. Check out our careers page for info on how to join us.